Dale T. Miller

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Dale T. Miller

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Norm theory: Comparing reality to its alternatives (1986) (2939)
Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction? (1975) (2433)
Just world research and the attribution process: Looking back and ahead. (1978) (1513)
Rediscovering Social Innovation (2008) (1233)
When small effects are impressive (1992) (962)
Asymmetries in Attachments to Groups and to their Members: Distinguishing between Common-Identity and Common-Bond Groups (1994) (451)
Expectancies and interpersonal processes. (1986) (404)
Ego involvement and attributions for success and failure. (1976) (355)
Pluralistic ignorance: When similarity is interpreted as dissimilarity. (1987) (353)
Changing Norms to Change Behavior. (2016) (340)
Pluralistic Ignorance and the Perpetuation of Social Norms by Unwitting Actors (1996) (318)
Psychological Essentialism of Human Categories (2007) (304)
Psychological license: When it is needed and how it functions. (2010) (267)
Temporal order and the perceived mutability of events: implications for blame assignment (1990) (257)
The construction of social norms and standards. (1996) (245)
Deserving and the Emergence of Forms of Justice1 (1976) (245)
Counterfactual Thinking and Victim Compensation (1986) (228)
When social comparison goes awry: The case of pluralistic ignorance. (1991) (224)
Counterfactual thinking and social perception : thinking about what might have been (1990) (209)
Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict (2001) (203)
Combining Social Concepts: The Role of Causal Reasoning (1990) (202)
Sociopsychological Processes Underlying Attitudes Toward Legal Punishment (1980) (186)
Self‐Blame in Victims of Violence (1983) (183)
Essentializing Differences Between Women and Men (2006) (181)
Committing Altruism under the Cloak of Self-Interest: The Exchange Fiction ☆ ☆☆ (2002) (172)
Particularistic and universalistic evaluation in the social comparison process. (1988) (168)
Suspicion and Dispositional Inference (1993) (167)
Collective Errors and Errors about the Collective (1994) (163)
The effects of in-group versus out-group social comparison on self-esteem in the context of a negative stereotype. (2000) (161)
The Justice Motive in Everyday Life: Subject Index (2002) (157)
Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: a repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. (2007) (150)
Minimal conditions for the creation of a unit relationship: the social bond between birthdaymates (1998) (144)
Counterfactual Thought, Regret, and Superstition: How to Avoid Kicking Yourself (1995) (139)
The Social Psychology of Punishment Reactions (1981) (124)
The counterfactual fallacy: Confusing what might have been with what ought to have been (1990) (118)
The Power of the Myth of Self-Interest (1996) (106)
When a coincidence is suspicious: the role of mental simulation (1989) (103)
Actor-observer differences in perceptions of effective control. (1975) (101)
Distortion in Person Perception as a Consequence of the Need for Effective Control. (1978) (93)
Counterfactual thinking and the first instinct fallacy. (2005) (93)
Altruism and threat to a belief in a just world (1977) (92)
Counterfactuals , Causal Attributions , and the Hindsight Bias : A Conceptual Integration (1996) (87)
Religiosity and political conservatism: The role of political engagement (2011) (87)
The role of situational restrictiveness on self-fulfilling prophecies: A theoretical and empirical extension of Kelley and Stahelski's triangle hypothesis. (1975) (86)
Inventing racist roads not taken: the licensing effect of immoral counterfactual behaviors. (2012) (80)
What constitutes a self-serving attributional bias? A reply to Bradley. (1978) (78)
Pluralistic ignorance and inconsistency between private attitudes and public behaviors. (2000) (77)
The framing of relative performance feedback: Seeing the glass as half empty or half full. (1994) (77)
The Distinctiveness Effect in Social Categorization: You Are What Makes You Unusual (1995) (73)
Personal deserving versus justice for others: An exploration of the justice motive☆☆☆ (1977) (68)
Judgments of Self-Other Similarity (1990) (62)
Effects of Age and Self-Verbalization on Children's Ability to Delay Gratification. (1978) (61)
Seeing approach motivation in the avoidance behavior of others: implications for an understanding of pluralistic ignorance. (2002) (59)
The unhealthy road not taken: Licensing indulgence by exaggerating counterfactual sins (2013) (59)
Effects of temporal perspective on the attribution process. (1980) (55)
Coping strategies and attentional mechanisms in self-imposed and externally imposed delay situations. (1976) (53)
The Self and the Collective (1994) (44)
Distinguishing between silent and vocal minorities: not all deviants feel marginal. (2008) (44)
Expressing deviant opinions: Believing you are in the majority helps (2009) (44)
Religiosity and social welfare: competing influences of cultural conservatism and prosocial value orientation. (2011) (43)
Profit Maximization Versus Disadvantageous Inequality: The Impact of Self-Categorization (2004) (42)
Children's Reactions to the Perpetrators and Victims of Injustices. (1979) (42)
Why not wait?: A cognitive model of self-imposed delay termination. (1983) (39)
Selfishly benevolent or benevolently selfish: When self-interest undermines versus promotes prosocial behavior (2016) (36)
Compensatory nonconformity: Self-uncertainty and low implicit self-esteem increase adoption and expression of minority opinions (2012) (35)
The emergence of homegrown stereotypes. (2002) (35)
Psychological levers of behavior change. (2013) (33)
How surveillance begets perceptions of dishonesty: the case of the counterfactual sinner. (2005) (32)
How the Moralization of Issues Grants Social Legitimacy to Act on One’s Attitudes (2012) (31)
The role of rewards in externally and self-imposed delay of gratification. (1976) (31)
Behavioral Processes in Long-Lag Intervention Studies (2017) (29)
Do as I say, not as I’ve done: Suffering for a misdeed reduces the hypocrisy of advising others against it (2015) (28)
The Justice Motive in Everyday Life: Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Lerner (2002) (28)
Morality and the Development of Conceptions of Justice (1981) (25)
Deservingness and Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Citizen Encounters with the Police (2002) (23)
Locus of Control and the Ability to Tolerate Gratification Delay: When It Is Better to Be an External. (1978) (21)
The perception of situational consistency in behaviour: Assessing the actor-observer bias. (1974) (20)
Social Norm Perception in Groups With Outliers (2017) (19)
The Effect of Own Deservingness and Deservingness of Others on Children's Helping Behavior. (1977) (17)
An Invitation to Social Psychology (2005) (17)
The effect of dialect and ethnicity on communicator effectiveness (1975) (17)
Moral traps: When self-serving attributions backfire in prosocial behavior (2017) (17)
Helping and Rationalization as Alternative Strategies for Restoring the Belief in a Just World: Evidence from Longitudional Change Analyses (2002) (17)
Reactions to incongruous negative life events (1994) (15)
The Price of Equality: Suboptimal Resource Allocations Across Social Categories (2009) (14)
From Moral Outrage to Social Protest : The Role of Psychological Standing (2009) (14)
Reader to accompany An invitation to social psychology : expressing and censoring the self (2006) (14)
Moral Opportunities Versus Moral Tests (2016) (14)
The Effect of Regional Similarity-Dissimilarity on Communicator Credibility (1973) (13)
Reducing Exposure to Trust-Related Risks to Avoid Self-Blame (2011) (13)
From whom do we learn group norms? Low-ranking group members are perceived as the best sources (2020) (12)
Political-economic values and the relationship between socioeconomic status and self-esteem. (2007) (11)
Diffusion of entitlement: An inhibitory effect of scarcity on consumption (2011) (11)
Social Norms in Organizations (2017) (11)
Social Categories and Group Preference Disputes: The Aversion to Winner-Take-All Solutions (2007) (11)
Being "good" or "good enough": Prosocial risk and the structure of moral self-regard. (2019) (10)
Conflicts of Interest: Commentary: Psychologically Naive Assumptions about the Perils of Conflicts of Interest (2005) (7)
Battling bad behavior (2006) (6)
Fairness Judgements as Cognitions (2002) (6)
Heuristics and Biases: Norm Theory: Comparing Reality to Its Alternatives (2002) (6)
A dynamic perspective on moral choice: Revisiting moral hypocrisy (2021) (4)
1 1 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CULTURAL CONTACT (1999) (3)
How Can You Say “No”? Deference Granted to Advocates Who Are Victims (2009) (2)
Chapter 17. Psychological Levers of Behavior Change (2013) (1)
Explaining Differences in Opinion Expression (2012) (1)
General Social Norm Perception in Groups With Outliers (1)
Selfishly Benevolent or Benevolently Selfish: Framing Effects in Prosocial Behavior (2016) (1)
Worse but Equal: The Influence of Social Categories on Resource Allocations (2006) (1)
On Happiness, Cultural Conflict, and Trust@@@Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology@@@Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict@@@Trust and Governance (2000) (0)
Behavioral Processes in Long-Lag Interventions (2017) (0)
D ISRESPECT AND THE E XPERIENCE OF I NJUSTICE (2009) (0)
Social Identity Tests (2020) (0)
Final Thoughts (2020) (0)
Defending Identity Claims (2020) (0)
Incentives and Identity Claims (2020) (0)
Avoiding Identity Tests (2020) (0)
Changing the Identity Relevance of Behavior (2020) (0)
The Power of Identity Claims (2020) (0)
Home > Research By Topic > Rediscovering Social Innovation Rediscovering Social Innovation (2008) (0)
Perspectives on Attributional Processes. (1981) (0)
Inventing Racist Roads Not Taken: The Licensing Effect of Immoral Counterfactual Behaviors (2012) (0)
Passing Identity Tests (2020) (0)
Failing Identity Tests (2020) (0)
Erratum to “Expressing deviant opinions: Believing you are in the majority helps” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45 (2009) 740–747] (2011) (0)
9. On first versus false instincts (2010) (0)
Metacognitive Beliefs About Groups (2005) (0)
The Price of Equality (2010) (0)
Neutralizing Identity Tests (2020) (0)
Being 'Good' or 'Good Enough' (2020) (0)
Maximizing Joint Gains: Transaction Utility Within and Between Groups (2005) (0)
Causes and Consequences of Moral Judgment (2016) (0)
The Justice Motive in Everyday Life: Overview of the Volume (2002) (0)